Friday, October 20, 2017

Thursday's Will & Grace, which slammed so-called conversion therapy camps run by right-wing Christian sects, slyly dissed homophobic VP Mike Pence and while doing so, snagged more viewers than any other scripted show of the week.Said Variety:

Will & Grace was steady in its fourth week, ranking as the top-rated and most-watched scripted show of Thursday night according to Nielsen overnight data. Airing at 9 p.m. on NBC, “Will & Grace” averaged a 1.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 6.5 million total viewers.

Glee coach Jane Lynch and Omaha's Andrew Rannells (who originated the role of Elder Price in Broadway's Book of Mormon) appeared as recently-married, allegedly straight counselors at Camp Straighten Arrow, where Rannell's character was challenged by interloper Will to a contest against his (nonexistent) Camp KickAMo. Both Lynch and Rannells are gay in life.

Series co-creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan told TheWrap that
their decision to introduce Skip — whose father is Jack’s son
Elliot (Michael Angarano) — came about following Trump’s 2016 election
win and in light of Pence’s link to so-called “gay-conversion therapy.”
“It must have come from our interest in wanting to do an episode on
conversion therapy because we were already into the presidency of the
game show host that’s in the White House,” Mutchnick said. “We knew it
was something that was on the minds of a lot of people because the vice
president was a person that believed in the barbaric practice of
conversion therapy. We don’t recognize it as a form of therapy — we only
recognize it as a form of torture.”

Maynard (Bob "Gilligan's Island" Denver) slyly flashes a nipple to the CBS eye while trying to talk his best buddy Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hick­man) into taking off all his clothes. Whoever said 1950s television was a vast waste­land obviously didn't know where to look.